Author: Don Dailey
Date: 08:08:30 07/18/98
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On July 18, 1998 at 06:36:47, blass uri wrote: > >On July 17, 1998 at 19:48:20, Mark Young wrote: > >>On July 16, 1998 at 22:21:28, Joe McCarron wrote: >> >>>On July 15, 1998 at 11:27:58, blass uri wrote: >>> >>>>do computer programs play in correspondence chess against humans >>>>and if yes I have 2 questions: >>>>1)what is the international rating? >>>>2)do their opponents know they play against a computer? >>>> >>>>I am sure computers have no chance against good players >>>>but they are many correspondence players who do not use a computer >>>>because they feel it is unethical. >>>> >>>>I know that in many correspondence games >>>>weak players do tactical mistakes because they do not use a computer. >>>> >>>>Uri >>>I once read that humans have the best chance against computers at roughly over >>>the board tournament time controls. But I would also be interested in finding >>>out how computers do in coorespondance as I would also think humans do better. >> >> >>Computers get crushed pretty badly playing strong players at correspondence >>chess. If I remember right IM Mike Valvo played (DT) in a 2 game match at >>correspondece chess. Mike crushed it even though DT was thinking many hours per >>move, and hitting 30 plies in its search. > >how could they see 30 plies deep? >it seem impossible in brute force depth even after hours >and if it is selective depth then it is possible to see more. > >Uri > >> I remember reading how shocked the >>programmers were at how badly the program lost. Even if Deep Blue was playing I >>think the results would have been the same. This shows how much more room there >>is left to improve programs. Read between the lines. I don't think Mike would have a chance if this was it's middlegame full width depth! This probably means that in some of the endgames it was getting 30 ply or that its deepest line was 30 ply deep with extensions and captures. This statement carries little information so I simply read it to mean Deep Thought was looking very deep. - Don
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